
1) American monster movie 2) Animal 3) Animate being 4) Baby bug 5) Baby insect 6) Beast 7) Beetle, at one time 8) Brute 9) Bug baby 10) Buggy baby 11) Butterfly in youth 12) Butterfly prerequisite 13) Butterfly, formerly 14) Caterpillar 15) Caterpillar or doodlebug 16) Caterpillar or grub 17) Caterpillar or tadpole
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1) Antlion 2) Bot 3) Caseworm 4) Caterpillar 5) Cercaria 6) Cercarial 7) Dobson 8) Hellgrammiate 9) Jointworm 10) Leptocephalus 11) Mealworm 12) Polliwog 13) Pollywog 14) Stage 15) Tadpole 16) Wireworm
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the early form or first stage of an insect during its development.
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Early life stage of some animals; this stage often looks very different than the adult
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juvenile form of various insects/parasites.
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• (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape. • (n.) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. Th...
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An insect in the stage between egg and pupa.
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a stage of insect complete metamorphosis between the egg and pupal stages. The feeding, growing, nonreproductive stage of insect development.
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(lahr´vә) pl. lar´vae an independent, immature stage in the life cycle of an animal, in which it is markedly unlike the parent and must undergo changes in form and size to reach the adult stage. something that resembles such an immature animal.
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in insects, an immature form, not resembling the adult; pl. larvae
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caterpillar; immature feeding stage of butterflies and moths and other insects with complete metamorphosis.
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An immature state of development of an insect or worm.
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Lar'va (lär'vȧ)
noun ;
plural Latin
Larvæ (-væ), English
Larvas (-vȧz). [ Latin
larva ghost, specter, mask.]
1. (Zoology) Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it us...
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Immature form of an insect such as a caterpillar, grub, or maggot.
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(pl. larvae) the immature, wingless, and often worm-like stage of a metamorphic insect that hatches from the egg, alters chiefly in size while passing through several molts, and is finally transformed into a pupa or chrysalis from which the adult emerges. The larva can look completely different from the adult form (e.g., blow fly)
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Among invertebrates, an immature stage in the life cycle which usually is much smaller than, and morphologically different from, the adult. In insects with metamorphosis, the larva must become a pupa before reaching adulthood.
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(plural larvae) youth stage of insects
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A discrete stage in many species, beginning with zygote formation and ending with metamorphosis
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noun the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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A stage in the development of many insects and other organisms including sea urchins and sponges. In sponges, sexual reproduction results in the production of motile ciliated larvae.
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an immature stage of a holometabolous insect that is morphologically distinct from the adult form. The larval stage of development follows the egg stage and precedes the pupal stage.
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a stage of insect complete metamorphosis between the egg and pupal stages. The feeding, growing, nonreproductive stage of insect development
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An immature stage of an organism which bears no structural resemblance to the mature stage. For example, a maggot is the larva of a fly, a caterpillar is the larva of a moth or butterfly. Remember: A caterpillar is just a butterfly maggot.
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immature form of an animal between the egg and adult stages
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[ACT vocabulary] the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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